On November 26, 1950, Smith, commander of the U.S. First Marine Division, received a shocking news that Homer Lizberg, commander of the 7th Regiment, reported that his troops had captured three Chinese soldiers, and that they would have two corps of troops attacking the First Marine Division. If this were the case, the First Marine Division would face annihilation. In order to verify the authenticity of this information, Smith flew by helicopter to Liutanli, the garrison of the 7th Regiment.
Smith has been in the battlefield for a long time, has fought many wars and vicious battles, and is well-known in the Marine Corps. During the flight, he made a rough estimate of the news lizberg reported. According to the establishment of the Chinese army, the two armies also have at least 80,000 people, and the reconnaissance aircraft sent by themselves have replied every time that no trace of Chinese has been found on the Gaima Plateau. Smith believes that although Chinese good at concealing marching, it is impossible for a force of more than 80,000 people to completely hide their tracks in the ice and snow.
Commander of the First Marine Division, Smith
After arriving at Liutanli, Smith was even more determined in his judgment, he did not think that there would really be two armies of Chinese troops ready to surround him. Because the identities of the three Chinese soldiers were very ordinary, Smith thought that it was impossible for them to know about this secret battle plan, and the three men were so thinly dressed that they could not withstand the cold of more than thirty degrees below zero. If they lurk motionless in the snow, within half an hour, they will freeze to death —no matter how strong the spirit of the Chinese soldiers, they are still ordinary people with flesh and blood.
Thinking of this, Smith was relieved, and he ordered his troops to continue to advance northward, with the 5th Regiment taking the lead, the 7th Regiment protecting the supply line between Hagaru-ri and Liutan-ri, and the 1st Regiment following suit. Smith then returned to the division headquarters by helicopter, and on the plane, he wiped the frosted thermometer with his leather gloves, and the scale on it showed: Minus 40 degrees! Smith was completely relieved that in any case he did not believe that the thinly dressed Chinese soldiers would lurk in such a cold weather, because it was beyond the limits of what the human body could bear.
But Smith was wrong, he still underestimated the spirit and perseverance of the Chinese volunteers, and the 100,000 horses of the 20th Army and the 27th Army were lurking in the ice and snow, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the arrogant First Marine Division. On the evening of November 27, 1950, the Battle of Chosin Lake was officially launched, and the units of the 9th Corps attacked as scheduled, and after a night of fierce fighting, the enemy in the encirclement was cut into 5 sections. However, Song Shilun soon discovered that although our army had a great advantage in the situation, due to the serious inferiority of firepower to the opponent, it was extremely difficult to completely annihilate the enemy troops in the encirclement, and the only way to concentrate forces was to selectively annihilate them.
In the end, Song Shilun selected the 31st Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Infantry Division, which was established in 1916 and was one of the most elite units of the US Army, because of its outstanding performance in World War I, the title of Polar Bear Regiment was awarded by then President Wilson, which was the number one trump card of the US 7th Division. Before the war, in order to strengthen the polar bear regiment's defensive strength, the US 7th Division strengthened the division's artillery battalion and tank detachment to the regiment, so that the total strength of the polar bear regiment reached more than 3300 people.
Polar bear flag
At dusk on the 28th, Zhan Danan, deputy commander of the 27th Army, commanded the strength of 4 regiments and launched a fierce attack on the Polar Bear Regiment. Under the command of the regimental commander McLean, the enemy relied on the ring defensive positions of tanks and armored vehicles to resist desperately, and the volunteer army lacking heavy artillery and anti-tank weapons failed to attack many times in a row. By the 29th, the attacking forces had suffered frostbite, frostbite and casualties by two-thirds. In order to gnaw down this hard bone, Zhan Danan transferred the 81st Division and launched another onslaught on the enemy on the night of the 30th.
The 8th Company of the Three Battalions of the 238th Regiment was stopped by an enemy fire point during the attack, and the situation was very critical. Kong Qingsan, the commander of the 5th Squad of the 92nd Infantry Artillery Company, was ordered to destroy this fire point, because the temperature was too low, and the ground under his feet was frozen like an iron block, and it could not be dug up at all. As a result, the right hoe of the 92 infantry gun could only be suspended in the air and could not be fired. In order to eliminate the enemy, Kong Qingsan resolutely used his shoulder as a support, resisted the right station hoe, and ordered the gunner to open fire. The gunner tearfully carried out the order, and one shot knocked out the enemy's fire point, and more than thirty enemies were blown to pieces.
Volunteer Army first-class combat hero Kong Qingsan
Kong Qingsan, who opened the passage for the infantry, was ejected several meters by the recoil of the artillery, and was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the abdomen, and died heroically, at the age of 24. After the war, he was posthumously honored by the Volunteer Army Headquarters for his special merits and was awarded the honorary title of "First Class Combat Hero". Inspired by Kong Qingsan, the warriors rushed to the enemy like tigers on the following mountain, and before dawn on December 1, they finally tore open a large hole in the enemy's defensive circle and engaged in close hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. In terms of close combat, the U.S. army was not a rival to the volunteers at all, and the polar bear regiment soon collapsed.
McLean fled frantically with his troops, intending to move closer to the First Marine Division. Wounded by a grenade on the way, he was captured alive by the volunteers and died four days later due to his wounds. After McLean was captured, a battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Fiss, took his place and led his troops on the run. At Hill 1221, he was stubbornly blocked by the volunteers, suffered heavy losses, and Feith himself was seriously injured by a grenade, and the soldiers threw him into a truck carrying the wounded soldiers and continued to escape.
Soon after, the pursuing volunteers surrounded them again, destroying a U.S. truck at a bend in the road, blocking the enemy's escape path. In desperation, the defeated soldiers left their regimental commander Fiss and ran along the frozen lake to the opposite shore, and soon the ice cracked, hundreds of American troops were drowned, the rest escaped, and the discarded Feith was frozen alive. Due to the harsh death criteria of the U.S. military, Feith was placed on the missing list. It wasn't until April 2013 that the U.S. military identified the remains of a U.S. military excavated in North Korea as Lieutenant Colonel Don Feith through DNA and dental identification, a full 62 years after he was placed on the missing list.
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